KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 7y ago
It sounds like moonshots were the original goal for them, then they realized how much slower and capital intensive atom based innovation is, compared to "bits" based innovation. They wanted to invest in the next SpaceX, then were
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
It seems like using an upvote/downvote system akin to Reddit and Hacker News would make more sense for this goal. Allow all viewers to determine the quality of a comment, not just the person who posted the original tweet. Everything
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
I never said it’s just boomers. My point was that boomers are a large portion of the population and positions of power, and they won’t be around for the worst of it, so they largely don’t care. The numerous “i’m young and also don’t care”
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
If you're of the baby boomer age group and older, it's likely you'll be gone before the worst effects of climate change are in effect, and they know that. For them, destroying the environment is not destroying yourself. It&
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
Because the LPs who fund VCs aren't only using wealthy individual's money, people's pensions are in there too.
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
This is why I feel the "most Americans like their health insurance" cliche is complete garbage.
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
Isn't thinness in a laptop the epitome of diminishing returns at this point? The high end ones are already at a pretty ideal level of thin, anything thinner is overkill and barely adds anything to the product. If anything, they should
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
All it means is that the software engineering sector is more open to applicants with varying backgrounds. This shouldn't come as a surprise, given how relatively young and innovative the tech industry is. There's nothing stopping
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
The $100 calculator era has long been a racket and blatant collusion between test taking companies (College Board, ACT, etc) and Texas Instruments. Same goes for universities forcing students to buy the latest edition of textbooks, despite
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
He adds very little of value at this point, and only harms the reputation and uses it as a way to funnel VC money into his bank account.
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
It's a shame WeWork is run by such scummy characters, the concept itself has the potential to make people's commutes much more flexible and shorter. When on-boarding a new employee, companies would be able to automatically provisi
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
I mean, the company is based in NYC, so it's literally not a SV company.
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
I've never heard an American refer to nuclear power as "nukes". This wording is pure clickbait.
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by KoftaBob 7y ago
The (well-intentioned) mistake you're making is assuming US officials' top priority is the greater interests of America, rather than their own personal interests. You could just as easily ask what the US gets out of the special re